David N. Hempton
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| title = Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School
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David Neil Hempton {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (born 1952) is a Northern Irish historian of evangelicalism, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.{{cite web|title=Fellows of the Royal Historical Society |url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-h.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614101814/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-h.pdf |archivedate=2013-06-14 }}
Biography
Hempton was born on 19 February 1952,{{cite web|title=Hempton, David|publisher=from Library of Congress Name Authority File|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85014275.html}} in Northern Ireland.{{cite news|title=Hempton named Divinity School dean|date=March 30, 2012|newspaper=Harvard Gazette|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/hempton-named-divinity-school-dean/}} He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (1974) from the Queen's University Belfast and his Doctor of Philosophy degree (1977) from the University of St Andrews.{{cite news|title=Hempton named first McDonald Family Professor|date=August 24, 2006|newspaper=Harvard Gazette|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/08.24/99-hempton.html}} Hempton began teaching at Queen's University in 1979, where he was professor of modern history and director of the school of history. He joined the faculty of Boston University in 1998, where he was professor of the history of Christianity, and in 2008 named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" at the divinity school. In 2007, he was appointed as the first Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and in 2012 it was announced he would succeed William A. Graham as dean of the school. In 2020 he was admitted as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.{{cite web|url=https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/29-new-members-admitted |title=29 New Members Admitted |work=Royal Irish Academy |date=22 May 2020 |access-date=27 Nov 2021}} He retired as HDS dean at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, but remains on the faculty.{{cite news |title=Hempton to Step Down as HDS Dean |url=https://hds.harvard.edu/news/2022/10/27/david-hempton-step-down-hds-dean |access-date=13 November 2023 |work=Harvard Divinity School |date=October 27, 2022}}
Selected publications
- Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850, winner of The Whitfield Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/whitfieldpastwinners.pdf |title=Previous Winners of the Whitfield Prize |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108151615/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/whitfieldpastwinners.pdf |archivedate=2013-01-08 }} (1984) {{ISBN|041555571X}}
- The Religion of the People: Methodism and Popular Religion C. 1750–1900 (1996) {{ISBN|0415077141}}
- Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (1996) {{ISBN|0521479258}}
- Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, winner of the Jesse Lee Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.gcah.org/site/c.ghKJI0PHIoE/b.3526375/k.8CBE/Jesse_Lee_Prize.htm |title=The Jesse Lee Prize |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010042017/http://www.gcah.org/site/c.ghKJI0PHIoE/b.3526375/k.8CBE/Jesse_Lee_Prize.htm |archivedate=2012-10-10 }} (2005) {{ISBN|0300119763}}
- Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (2008) {{ISBN|030014282X}}
- The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize{{cite web|title=David Hempton Awarded Outler Prize|date=December 7, 2012|publisher=Harvard Divinity School|url=http://hds.harvard.edu/news/2012/12/07/david-hempton-awarded-outler-prize}} (2011) {{ISBN|184511440X}}
References
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External links
- [http://hds.harvard.edu/people/david-n-hempton Hempton's faculty page at Harvard Divinity School]
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Category:Historians from Northern Ireland
Category:Reformation historians
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Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Category:Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland
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